Snoop Dogg smoked fat blunts at the Eureka Muni. Oaksterdam News photo

If anyone at the show wondered why Snoop Dogg came to Humboldt County, their questions were soon answered.

"We came here to smoke some weed with you and f*** some of these fine-ass b****es," Snoop said.

Although a fight broke out at 7:30 p.m. -- long before the show started -- the tone of the night was really centered on chilling out and smoking marijuana.

David Moss, one of the promoters of the show, said that he wanted to thank the crowd for being so calm.

"My biggest concern was that the show come off safely," he said. "We were really prepared.

The police and promoters were worried about fights or other kinds of violence breaking out and worked hard to ensure everyone's safety, Moss said.

To enter the show fans had to go through a screening area with metal detectors and submit to a search by security. This is typical of shows in larger cities but not in Humboldt County.

The organizers had to balance that safety with being able to get everyone inside in a timely manner.

By the time the opening act, stoner rappers Potluck, finished at 9 p.m., the Muni was still only about half full.

But Potluck rocked their set anyway. As a crew that gained its fame and notoriety by repping Humboldt County weed, none of the lyrics they spit were terribly surprising. Their first single "Humboldt County High" was a song based solely on smoking pot. So when they introduced their song "Stoner B****" with, "This is a song for all the ladies who smoke weed," causing about 75 percent of the females in the audience to cheer their lungs out, it set the tone for the night. This was a show for stoners.

DJ 1 Ton and UnderRated even threw blunt wraps out to the crowd during a break due to technical difficulties -- the left-hand speaker block went out during one of their songs.

"Since we can't give out free weed, we'll give you the next best thing," DJ 1 Ton said.

By the time that Snoop came onstage at about 9:45 p.m. there was no doubt that the sold-out crowd had filed in. The VIP area was packed, and the tightly-packed audience stretched back to the doors.

Unfortunately, during the first song the technical difficulties struck again as the left speaker block went out for a second time. This wasn't the only problem with the sound system that night. Kurupt's mic was out the whole time and when he was taking the lead on the rhymes all you could hear was the other rappers throwing in the random "Yeah," "Uh huh" and other emphasis words.

All problems aside, though, Snoop came to put on a show. He refrained from doing a show filled with lesser-known new songs as he ran through a set list that contained hits off of "DoggyStyle" and "2001." His set included "Beautiful," "Nothin' But a G Thang," "Big Snoop Dogg," "Gangsta Party," "Ain't No Fun (If My Homies Can't Have None)," "Lodi Dodi," "Next Episode," "Gin and Juice," "Let's Get High," and more.

He even did renditions of Rick James' "Mary Jane" and House of Pain's "Jump Around."

At the beginning of the show, Snoop looked down at the ground and saw a plastic bag filled with marijuana. A smile crossed his face like it was his lucky day.

By about his second song the weed started raining onstage as the audience lobbed marijuana buds, bags of weed and even a marijuana branch at one point. Some of the bags contained CDs as well as weed as the throwers tried to get their own rhymes heard by the legendary Big Dogg.

It got so bad that Snoop finally had to tell the audience that it was enough.

"I can't take all this home. Stop throwing weed at me," Snoop said.

But he wasn't asking the crowd to stop because he didn't appreciate the product.

"You have the best weed I've ever smoked," Snoop exclaimed to the cheering throngs.

Although he was constantly picking up marijuana off the stage and depositing it back by the DJ, he was also partaking in the bounty that was falling on him like manna.

At one point, joints were being passed from the crowd onto stage and back down into the crowd.

When he stepped onstage to perform, Snoop already looked high, but by the end of the show he was looking ridiculous. When he introduced "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" by turning to Soopafly and saying "Are you high? 'Cause I am. I'm so high I don't even remember my name, What's my name?," he almost sold it as the truth.

Snoop ended the show by looking out into the crowd and making a promise.

"Take a look at this face because I will be back. Anytime you want."